Picture Books for Teens

* The Faithful Elephants by Tsuchiya about the Tokyo Zoo during WWII.
* The Paper Bag Princess by Munsch
* Tadpole's Promise by Willis
* A Bad Case of the Stripes by Shannon
* Grandfather Twilight by Berger
* Agatha's Featherbed by Deedy
* Mysteries of Harris Burdick by VanAllsberg
* Zoo by Anthony Browne
* Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust by Eve Bunting's
* Arlene Sardine by Chris Raschka (Orchard, 1998)
* Baaaa (Houghton Mifflin, 1985) and Black and White (1990) by David Macaulay
* Faithful Elephants (Houghton Mifflin, 1988) by Yukio Tsuchiya
* Fox (Kane/Miller, 2001) and The Woolvs in the Sitee (Front Street, 2007)
* Hiroshima No Pika by Toshi Maruki (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1980)
* The House that Crack Built by Clark Taylor (Chronicle, 1992)
* Just One Flick of a Finger by Marybeth Lobriecki (Dial, 1996)
* Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam by Walter Dean Myers (Harper, 2002)
* Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco (Philomel, 1994)
* Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson (Putnam, 2005)
* Terrible Things by Eve Bunting (Harper, 1980)
* There's a Hair in My Dirt: A Worm's Story by Gary Larson (Harper Collins, 1998)
* Tusk Tusk by David McKee (Kane/Miller, 1990)
* The Wolves in the Wall by Neil Gaiman (Harper Collins, 2003)
* Anything by Jon Scieszka and many titles by Chris Van Allsburgh
* Sad Book by Michael Rosen
* Some stories by Patricia Polacco
* Bantam of the Opera, Hen Lake, and Beauty and the Beaks by Mary Jane Auch
* Wolves in the Walls and The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish by Neil Gaiman
* Rose Blanche by Innocenti, about WWII Holocaust
* Willie & Max by Littlesugar, about WWII Holocaust
* The Librarian of Basra by Winter, about Iraq Contemporary
* The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Gerstein, about World Trade Towers
* If a Bus Could Talk: The story of Rosa Parks by Ringgold
* Molly Bannaky by McGill, about Westward expansion/ slavery
* Snowflake Bentley by Martin, about true story of Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley whose photographs of snowflakes are still used today
* I Never Knew Your Name by Garland, about teen suicide
* Lon Po Po by Young, about Chinese Little Red Riding Hood

Suggestions also made for trying wordless or nearly wordless graphic novels as scaffolds for constructing narrative understandings and could be used to encourage students to invent their own narratives

Thirdly, here is a link to a strong lesson plan, "Creative Writing Through Wordless Picture Books," that should prove helpful (http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=130). Two of the three links contained in the lesson plan for lists of wordless picture books are operational, and here is a third list, which contains several of the suggestions that have been raised here: